Tom Sawyer, Detective
Harper Brothers | |
Publication date | 1896 |
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| Media type | Print, Audio CD |
| Preceded by | Tom Sawyer Abroad |
| Text | Tom Sawyer, Detective at Wikisource |
Tom Sawyer, Detective is an
Film adaptations
- In 1938, the novel was made into Huckleberry Finn.
- A similar incarnation of Tom Sawyer appeared in the film version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, set three years after the publication of this novel. In this film, Tom works for the United States Secret Service, and in the novelization of the film, Sawyer mentions that he once worked as a detective.
Plagiarism accusation
In 1909, Danish schoolmaster Valdemar Thoresen claimed, in an article in the magazine Maaneds, that the plot of the book had been plagiarized from
However, in an opening note in the book preceding the first chapter (as republished by Gutenberg Press), the author states:
Note: Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are not inventions, but facts—even to the public confession of the accused. I take them from an old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors, and transfer the scenes to America. I have added some details, but only a couple of them are important ones. — M. T.[3]
As the story material (the 1626 trial of Pastor Søren Jensen Quist of Vejlby) predated Blicher, Twain had as much right to use it as Blicher.
See also
References
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- ^ "Was 'Tom Sawyer' Danish Or American?; Why Mark Twain Is Charged with 'Borrowing' from Steen Blicher's Story of 'The Vicar of Weilby.'", by Henry S. Leach, New York Times Sunday Magazine, February 6, 1910, p7
- ^ 'Tom Sawyer, Detective', Chapter 1
External links
- Tom Sawyer, Detective at Project Gutenberg
- Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective, University of California Press, 2004.
- Full Text of Tom Sawyer, Detective online at Mark Twain Classics
Tom Sawyer, Detective public domain audiobook at LibriVox
